jrub

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by jrub 1y ago
I get the frustration, but I think Tailwind’s biggest win is what it trades: structure and locality instead of style purity. Traditional CSS gives you basically nothing in terms of hierarchy or organization. You end up writing long, awkward
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by jrub 11y ago
I think these exmples are largely worthless also. Every time I see something like this - I all but dismiss it. It seems like the aim/value proposition is to make life easier by removing decisions from our plate, but I feel like it is e
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by jrub 11y ago
There are so many people in the tech industry that have no business being there, that suck and have no passion, that are assholes and aren't willing to teach newcomers. The fact that women in tech is an issue or that women get harassed
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by jrub 11y ago
I used to write scripts to chop down trees, practice healing, mine and smelt ore, cast "fireball" on myself so I could level up my magic skills...lol I remember a specific time when I was setting up my mining operation. I took the
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by jrub 11y ago
Same. When I first heard the term "shard," I thought we were talking about UO. I still think about it every time time I hear "shard." I don't ever run into anyone who has played UO either, and so everyone looks at m
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by jrub 11y ago
Legitimate question: The whole "delete when you're done' practice is a pretty common tenant to secure communication. However, there are plenty of cases where having that historical data is really useful. After all, computers
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by jrub 12y ago
The poor design of these parking signs is actually "a feature, not a bug." Parking tickets in the cities which have these sorts of sign issues (DC, NYC, Chicago, ATL, etc) make up a significant amount of income for the city. Paid
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by jrub 12y ago
I also don't get push notifications of my e-mail. I also don't get a ton, but it's a well known fact to my colleagues that I don't reply to e-mail instantly and if they're sending me an e-mail expecting an immediate
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by jrub 12y ago
The "unnecessary syntax" that a lot of people tend to loathe, I actually prefer. Maybe not semi-colons, but it takes me a day or two to get out of/into the habit of typing semi-colons at the end of each line, so it's not
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Ask HN: SCSS/Sass vs. LESS
7 points by jrub 12y ago|16 comments
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by jrub 12y ago
I didn't go to one of those 3-Month programs, but I've interviewed some people who have. Just like any other education program, you're going to get out what you put in. There is only so much that can be covered in a 3 month p
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by jrub 12y ago
> But I also have to admit I feel quite some anxiety when I feel a taxi driver is going to screw me over. This will happen a lot. You have to be the kind of guy that can stand up for himself. Not too social at certain moments I'd sa
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by jrub 12y ago
Maybe someone can enlighten me; but why does AT&T seem like a popular launch partner with new mobile handsets? The only reasons I can come up with are a) money (AT&T taking a smaller cut of subsidies/paying the manufacturer mor
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3 Million Credit and Debit Cards Stolen in Michaels, Aaron Brothers Breaches(krebsonsecurity.com)
1 points by jrub 12y ago|0 comments
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by jrub 12y ago
I use a combination of pocket + bookmarks for similar use cases that dragdis solves; I like the concept of dragdis a lot (it's like pocket with better organization, plus the awesome feature of being able to save specific snippits of da
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HipChat 1-to-1 Video and Screen Sharing – Now in Beta(blog.hipchat.com)
6 points by jrub 13y ago|1 comments
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by jrub 13y ago
In the case of User.getName, why do you re-define that method just to call the prototype's method? Doesn't creating the object from the parent prototype bring that getName method to the User object for free? Or, were you demonstra
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by jrub 13y ago
I think you're describing an HMAC[1] authentication code here. Certainly signing your requests as actually having come from your application is a legitimate means of security. But there are much lower hanging fruit (in terms of availab
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by jrub 13y ago
browserify, +1.
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by jrub 13y ago
and underscore. not for DOM, but for some functional compatibility (map, forEach, etc). Plus, it's convenience methods quickly become indispensable. _(fn).bind(this), anyone?
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by jrub 13y ago
Buying likes (beyond a certain point) anymore is largely an outdated methodology. Once you've got a significant number of likes for your Page on Facebook (which is kind of a case-by-case number, depending on your brand, business, demog
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by jrub 13y ago
Finally!